Current wiki access status

[Elizabeth K. Joseph]

Hi everyone,

Starting a new thread here so we can focus on the leadership stuff in
the leadership thread.

The wikis are locked down to only two teams: ~ubuntu-members and a
Canonical team.

We had to remove ~ubuntu-etherpad some time ago because it had:

1. Some teams that were open (like some LoCos), so spammers joined
those teams en masse to gain access. As a result, the wiki got spammed
and those real teams got filled with spam accounts. Very frustrating.

2. The administrative burden of combating spammers who requested to
join was turning into a ridiculous full time job. The spammers kept
getting more clever so their accounts looked real.

On Thursday popey proposed a new team that he and a few others have
volunteered to be moderators of. It's not created yet, but it will
likely be a fully moderated team so the admins don't get flooded with
join requests again, and people have to explicitly request access from
the admins and justify their request (possibly by sharing some
legitimate prior work they've done in the community if we don't know
them already).

It's yet another band-aid, but until we find someone to actually drive
efforts toward a more long term solution, it's the best we can do.

-- 
Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2